Dr Charles Ellinas

The Turkey-Libya MoU increasing tensions with Greece After a quiet year in 2021, perhaps as a result of Covid-19, we are back to the perennial problem of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) ...

By Charles Ellinas A report on the ‘Digital Quality of Life Index 2022’ ranks Cyprus 37th in the world by overall digital wellbeing, down two places since last year’s edition, ...

The roadmap to resolve the dispute with Israel is welcome but Europe is still phasing out gas The news this week that the energy ministers of Cyprus and Israel agreed ...

It is time for Cyprus to move from words to action As we approach winter the global energy crisis is getting worse and worse. It has shifted from a situation ...

The EU has finally woken-up to the seriousness of the problem High energy prices are here to stay for many years to come. Last week, Shell’s CEO, Ben van ...

It’s significant, but serious challenges remain With the world gripped by an ever-deteriorating energy crisis, with gas supplies and prices playing a central role, the discovery of a new ...

Solving the Cyprus problem and solving the energy crisis go hand in hand With the European energy crisis intensifying and the likelihood of complete Russian gas cut-off increasing – Russian gas ...

Very few politicians seem to grasp the magnitude of the coming crisis, its impact and its costs Europe’s energy security is on a knife edge. The concern that there ...

‘This winter in Europe will be very, very difficult’ These will probably be the most important elections Cyprus has had for a long time. And it is not just the ...

The island could have played a major role in this had its own LNG project at Vasilikos been allowed to proceed The Memorandum of Understanding between the EU, Egypt and ...

By Charles Ellinas The news is that the President requested a meeting with the ministers of energy and finance, the Cyprus Energy Regulation Authority (CERA) and the Electricity Authority of ...

Botched-up policies in the implementation of renewables are not helping Cyprus electricity prices have been escalating since last year and there does not appear to be an end in sight. ...

The oil ban may not bring the pain to Russia that Brussels expects. The losers are the consumers The EU finally agreed on Thursday to impose a ban on seaborne ...

The EU’s €210bn plan is far-reaching but Cyprus is woefully behind In addition to its plan to stop using Russian oil, the EU has gone further, trying to grasp ...

Cyprus missed the opportunities it had in 2013 to develop its own gas and is now paying the price As Europe imposes more and more sanctions to reduce and eventually stop ...

The urgent push to end dependency on Russian energy is creating new opportunities for the East Med and reviving projects previously considered unviable By Charles Ellinas A proposal by Energean ...

With tectonic shifts on the world stage, now really is the time to solve the Cyprus problem and put Cyprus’ energy finds to use In a fast-changing geopolitical world – following ...

The war in Ukraine has made the security of energy supply a top priority, increasing pressure in Europe to accelerate the transition to cleaner fuels, including hydrogen. This was one ...

Ukraine crisis has created opportunities for the East Med region and Cyprus gas With the EU seeking to get-rid of Russian gas – now at 40 per cent – by two-thirds by the ...

The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy. It has come at a time when the recovery from Covid-19 has begun to ...

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen said “EU’s strategy for hydrogen and LNG will be intensified, along with ...

KODAP released its 2022 budget in early February. Out of €119million, over €34 million is allocated to the construction of a strategic oil reserve storage at Vasiliko, with another €23million budgeted to ...

In the aftermath of this crisis Europe will be even more determined to accelerate transition to renewables and clean energy The unthinkable, and probably illogical, happened. Russia has finally invaded ...

This project has been continuously in the limelight during the last few weeks, but, worryingly, for the wrong reasons. Following many questions about the lack of progress, significant schedule slippage ...